Value

The possible values are:

left

Align the text to the left. Use text-align: left applied directly to the <td> or <th> instead.

right

Align the text to the right. Use text-align: right applied directly to the <td> or <th> instead.

center

Center the text in the cell. Use text-align: center instead.

Examples

Use CSS text-align on the <td> and <th> elements. As <td> elements of a column are not children of <col>, setting the align attribute in HTML or text-align property in CSS on a <col> element will have no effect. Instead, select the cells of a column using a :is(td, tr):nth-child(n), where n is the column number, or similar.

An example is available on the :nth-child() page.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• text-align
• :nth-child()
• :nth-last-child()
• Learn: Styling tables